Production is set to restart this week at Serica Energy’s Triton fields in the UK North Sea, after an outage took the floating production, storage and offloading vessel offline last month.
Serica and FPSO operator Dana Petroleum first identified an issue with the gas compressor on the vessel on 26 October, and the facility was taken offline for repairs.
Serica said on Thursday repairs have been completed and “production is anticipated to begin this week”.
Work will continue on the facility for a number of months related to an ongoing maintenance programme.
“The operational vulnerability remains until the ongoing maintenance works are completed,” said Serica, adding that the completion date is likely to be in the first quarter of 2025.
Output for the third quarter was heavily impacted by the outage, as well as planned maintenance, and fell to 26,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, compared with 42,400 boepd the previous quarter.
Production fell at Triton, but also at Serica’s other main hub, Bruce, and at the company’s other assets in the UK North Sea. The Triton hub comprises of eight producing oilfields.
Separately in the Triton area, the company is progressing with the Gannet GE-05 well tie-in to the FPSO, which was completed on 25 October. The operation was carried out “under budget and ahead of time”, it said.
Production is set to start from Gannet 5 “in the coming days”.
Serica’s campaign is continuing in the Guillemot NW field, where the COLS Innovator rig has reached target depth. The EC1 well is forecast to start producing in the first quarter of next year.
Source: By Davide Ghilotti from upstreamonline.com